Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-09-29
HEADQUARTERS OF

HEADQUARTERS OF
REPUBLICAN STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE,
COLUMBUS. o.. Sept. 81, 1887.
Hon. Irvine DUNCAN, Chairman Democratic
Safe Executive Committee, Columbus. O.:
DEAR SIR-you letter of even date, in
which you enclose what purpOrts to be a
copy of Governor Foraker's special mes
sage, and which is one of series of three
different editions purporting to be such
message sent out by your committee, is
received.
We have also on file copies of two
other forms and editions purporting to be
copies of the same sent out by your COM
mittee. We have no objection to your
sending out exact and correct copies of
Governor Foraker's special message, and
hope that this special message, as deliv-
cred, will be widely circulated, as we
know of no more effective way of con-
tradicting the lies and Misrepresentation
regarding it, set into circulation by your
committee. We suggest that with true
copy of the message you send out the ed
itorials, commencing and endorsing it,
which appeared in the Cincinnati En-
quirer April 8, 1885; Columbus Times
April Z, 1886; the Cleveland Plaindealer
April and April 10, 1886, and in other
Democratic newspapers about the same
dates. These newspapers at that time
united in commencing and endorsing the
special message.
Since the Republican newspapers
named in your letter have exposed the
scheme, we would suggest that in addi-
ton to stopping the circulation of the
forged and garbled messages already put
out by you, that you also call in those
sent out and direct the editors of the Mt.
Vernon Banner, Kenton Democrat and
many other Democratic newspapers who
have printed the forged and garbled mes
sages to retract and correct in their next
issues.
Congratelating you on your expressed
intention of returning to honest methods,
and hoping that you may be sincere in
your expression, and that this letter will
be attached to any true copies of Gov
ernor Foraker's special message which
you may send out, am,
Very truly yours,
W. S. CAPPELLER, Chairman.
Mr.. DUNCAN did not seem to know
when he had enough, and sent another
whining letter, which was answered as
follows:
HEADQUARTERS OF
REPUBLICAN STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, ,
COLUMBUS, o., Sept 81, 1887. }
Hon. Irvine Dungln, Chairman Democratic
State Executive Committee, Columbus, O.:
Ia+t Of 10
day, urging US to certify to the honesty
of your committee, and to edit your cam
paign documents, is received. Your at
tempted denial of having forged and gar
bled Governor Foraker's message is in
the nature of an unsupported allegation,
and the facts do not admit of giving you
the benefit of certificate for political
honesty that your party management in
Ohio now, and for the past few years,
has been so sadly in need of. Your de-
sire for the particulars in which your
different editions of the message differ
from each other and the original can be
gratified by comparing those remaining
in your possession, unless you have de-
stroyed them since your scheme was ex-
posed, or by comparison of the original
with the mutilated and garbled version
of it circulated as a document and pub
hshed at your instigation in Democratic
newspapers. We do not care to have the
copies of your different editions now in
our possession go into your hands, as you
evidently wish, as we might have diff
Guilty in recovering them; neither do we
intend to waste any more valuable time
in striving to make you comprehend that
your present course is not calculated to
win you the confidence of the people any
more than were some of the statements
of your candidate, Mr.. Powell, in his
Hamilton speech, which were known by
all well-informed men to be at variance
with the truth and history.
Hoping that you will be able to man
age your campaign in some manner dur
ing the remaining six week until election
without again calling on US to assist you
out of dilemmas brought about by your
own reckless and perverted course, 1 am,
Very truly yours,
W. S. CAPPELLER, Chairman.
THE Democratic state executive COM